SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Solar storms have been making headlines as northern lights appear in unexpected places across the United States.
The phenomenon starts 93 million miles away on the sun, which sometimes releases massive bursts of energy called solar flares or coronal mass ejections. These giant clouds of charged particles race toward Earth.
When those particles slam into Earth’s magnetic field, they shake it, creating what scientists call a geomagnetic storm…